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The Atlantic Astronomers have discovered a black-hole treasure trove that is changing our view of the cosmos. MARK GARLICK / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / GETTY When the first black-hole collision was detected in 2015, it was a watershed moment in the history of astronomy. Using gravitational waves, astronomers were observing the universe in an entirely new way. But this first event didn’t revolutionize our understanding of black holes—nor could it. This collision would be the first of many, astr...

Fast-growing Swedish cloudcomputing services provider Sinch AB reported sharplygrowing quarterly sales and earnings on Thursday boosted bystrong demand for its products and contributions from recentacquisitions. The company, a rival of U.S.-based Twilio Inc, hasbeen boosted by the rapid increase in digitalization and workingfrom home prompted by the pandemic, and its shares are up morethan 330% over the past year. Sinch, which has a scalable platform for messaging, voiceand video, has been a v...

Syria: UNRWA - Humanitarian Snapshot, December 2020 Format Rapid Increase in Number of Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 Since the beginning of the pandemic, 98 Palestine refugees (non-staff) have tested positive to COVID-19, and six refugees have died after contracting the virus. A total of 135 UNRWA staff (including 117 Palestine refugees and 18 Syrians) have tested positive to COVID-19. As of 31 December 2021, 23 staff were in quarantine. Yarmouk Mission On 9 December 2020, a one-day distribution ...

Syria: UNRWA - Humanitarian Snapshot, November 2020 Format Rapid Increase in Number of Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 As of 30 November, 7,797 COVID-19 cases (413 fatalities and 3,500 recoveries with an increase of approximately 2,000 cases in one month. Amongst those cases, 239 health workers were confirmed by the Syrian Ministry of Health (MoH). The testing remains low – 64,000 tests were performed in laboratories across Syria as of 30 November, with a current average of 550 tests per day. Fif...

Monday, December 21, 2020 On September 13, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order (the “Executive Order”) directing the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) to issue regulations instituting two most-favored-nations (“MFN”) payment models – one model for prescription drugs covered by Part B of the Medicare program (in general terms, Medicare Part B covers drugs that are administered by infusion or injection in physician offices and hospital outpatien...